The Empowered Mama

with Lisa Druxman

Inspire. Strength. Success.

Lisa Druxman is ready to motivate you! It is her passion to raise healthy moms so that they can raise healthy kids in a healthy world. Get out of overwhelm and get into living your best life as a mom! Join us as we inspire you each week to eat clean, live fit and be happy! We will talk food, fitness, life balance, and living with purpose and passion. Lisa will bring on a variety of guests and will answer your questions!

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September 3, 2019Lisa Druxman

Why do men do so little at home?

Why do women do so much?

Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?

Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most harmful problem facing modern parents—how progressive relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced into the household.

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Darcy Lockman's Favorite Quote:

The arc of the moral universe is long and it bends toward justice

If Darcy Lockman was to get a tattoo with one word that she valued, what would it be? Love

Are you ready to ditch overwhelm and grow your life and business without stress?

After overcoming cancer at 25, my guest today made it her mission to show busy women how to ditch the overwhelm, grow their business without the stress, and find inner peace in all areas of their life.

Are you ready?

Sitting in the doctor’s office when she found out she had cancer was her wake-up call.

It’s when she decided something had to change.

The way she was living - stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, and exhausted - was (literally) killing her.

So if you’ve ever felt:

Frustrated, stuck, and like you’re spinning your wheels

Unsure of what to focus on because everything feels urgent

Busy all the time, yet not reaching your goals

Overwhelmed and anxious about how you’re going to get it all done

Then you will love this episode. Because she’s been there. And she has figured out how to have success without the stress.

While families are diverse and their needs are unique, family meetings provide a safe and environment for every family to discuss issues and explore the best ways to have the family succeed.

My guest today teaches families what a family council is, why it's a perfect environment for teaching, for exploring difficult issues, learning how to play, and how best to solve problems at home, school, or work.

With Jason: How was work? Fine. Tell me about it. You know, usual stuff.

I know I’m showing up in life, which is half the battle.

Woody Allen said 80% of success is just showing up.

So I’m doing that.

But sometimes I wonder if I’m just showing up. Am I really giving my all?

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This episode is brought to you by FIT4MOM.

FIT4MOM is the company I started 17 years ago because I needed a village, a place to belong. The fitness was icing on the cake. We are now fitness for every stage of motherhood and it’s the place where you will find the strength...

My guest today is the creator of one of the most popular parenting websites.

She is a best selling author, speaker and one of the few bloggers who tell it like it is about parenting, entrepreneurship and divorce.

Listen in and meet Scary Mommy, Jill Smokler.

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This episode is brought to you by FIT4MOM, my company, where you will find The Strength in Motherhood® at any stage. We are proud to offer FIT4BABY®, Stroller Strides®, Body Back® and our newest program Strides360™. Go to https://www.fit4mom.com to find a class near you and if there isn’t a class near you, come join our family. Check out our franchise opportunities. We are proud to be ranked as one of the top franchises by Entrepreneur Magazine.

About Jill Smokler

Jill Smokler is a noted entrepreneur, social influencer, New York Times bestselling author,...

Can’t imagine our lives without them but also concerned by our connection to them?

What about your kids?

How do you feel about them being raised by robots?

Do you have concerns about their ability to have real-life connection?

Concern about rising anxiety and depression?

I do.

But I also know sure how to navigate this new digital world.

So, I have invited the author of the best selling book, Disconnected, to help us figure it all out.

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About Tom

Tom Kersting is a licensed psychotherapist and author of the bestselling book, Disconnected: How to reconnect our digitally distracted kids.

He is regular contributor for Fox News and The Today Show and has hosted television series’ for A&E Network, Food Network and National Geographic Channel, offering insight and advice about parenting, relationships and wellness.

Would you want your son or your daughter to treat their spouse as you treat yours?

Let’s rekindle that relationship.

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This episode is brought to you by FIT4MOM, where you can find The Strength In Motherhood at any stage of motherhood. We have classes such as FIT4BABY,Stroller Strides, Run Club and our newest program Strides360. When you come to FIT4MOM, I promise you will find moms like you. It’s not just the highlight reel. Come with your messy bun with...

When I became a mom, I did everything I could to feed my baby healthy organic food.

But my options were so limited if I didn’t want to make the baby food myself.

Luckily there are so many more options today and one of the best for fresh baby food is from our friend Cassandra Curtis, founder of Once Upon A Farm.

Listen in to see why she started her company, why her baby food is different and how she does the motherhood.

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About Cassandra

Cassandra brings extensive knowledge of childhood nutrition and first-life parenting experience, as well as product development and operational experience to her position at Once Upon a Farm. Overseeing ongoing business operations, branding, and digital marketing within the company, and leading product development and recipes, Cassandra is helping to create a successful company with the highest quality baby food available on the market.

As a mother of three, Cassandra has always been committed to bringing only the healthiest...

All of these seemingly unimportant decisions are why you feel burned out!

Today I’m going to talk to you on a plan on how to end decision fatigue.

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Do you sometimes think your dream life will happen when you achieve a certain weight?

We’re talking about everything from being a Whole Woman to witchcraft with Empowered Mama, Sarah Jenks.

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About Sarah

Sarah Jenks is mother to 3 rambunctious small humans, a life coach, emotional eating expert, and sacred space holder.

She is the founder of Whole Woman, a monthly online membership for women seeking the answers to “Who am I? And why am I here?” and Live More Weigh Less™, the most popular online emotional eating program.

Between her online programs and as proprietress of Hawthorn Farm, her 23-acre retreat center in Medfield, Massachusetts, Sarah holds sacred space to empower women and support them in finding their magic and rediscovering their most authentic selves.

Since 2009, Sarah’s community of women seeking a fuller, more meaningful life has grown to almost 100K members.

In this episode, I answer your questions on everything from how to start a business to how to get out of overwhelm and how to get out of anxiety.

Whatever you send in and I mean whatever, I’m answering. Unedited and unscripted.

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This episode is brought to you by FIT4MOM, where you can find The Strength In Motherhood at any stage of motherhood. We have classes such as FIT4BABY, Stroller Strides, Run Club and our newest program Strides360. When you come to FIT4MOM, I promise you will find moms like you. It’s not just the highlight reel....

My guest today turned her nut butter idea into a million dollar business.

She created her nut butters for her two adopted boys from the Ukraine.

Find out why they are the best butter and how she does motherhood.

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About Danielle

Danielle Dietz-LiVolsi is regarded as one of the natural food industry’s top ‘trailblazers.’

She implemented the strategic rollout of the NuttZo brand, as well as, managed NuttZo’s rapid double-digit growth over the past 10 years.

Danielle has more than 20 years national sales and marketing experience, business strategy and development, team motivation and an unparalleled passion to service towards creating a healthier, happier, and sustainable world.

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Danielle’s Favorite Quote: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. - Anne Lamott

Thank you for listening today, and every day that you join me. As always, if there is someone you want me to interview or a topic you want me to talk about, just send me an email to podcast@fit4mom.com.

Do you dream of having an assistant to do the things you don’t love to do?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone who could manage your calendar, do your email or maybe your social media?

You can with a virtual assistant.

My guest today is going to share how you can delegate more so you can do more of what you love.

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About Trivinia

Trivinia is the founder of Priority VA - a boutique Virtual Assistant Agency that matches elite level entrepreneurs like Todd Herman and Ray Edwards with highly skilled assistants who “get” the online space and come prepared to deliver massive ROI right out of the gate.

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If Trivinia were to get a tattoo with one word that she valued, what would it be?

Trivinia already has “Truth” tattooed on her left wrist

Favorite Quote: “If you don’t have an executive assistant, you are one.” - Cameron Herold

Thank you for listening today, and every day that you join me. As always, if there is someone you want me to interview or a topic you want me to talk about, just send me an email to podcast@fit4mom.com.

I know how busy you are, but if you could just take a moment to review the show on iTunes or Stitcher, it would mean the world to me. Think of it like leaving a little tip for your barista. If you liked this episode share it. Super easy to do! Use #EmpoweredMama so that I can thank you!

As full as your heart is in motherhood, do you ever desire to give more?

To create awareness or help others in need?

My guest today turned her triathalons into a way to raise money for children in Africa.

Find out why she has a Heart For Africa and how it fits into the motherhood.

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About Mandy

Mandy Wallick is a wife and a mom to a 4, 6, and 7-year-old, and a triathlete.

She is also a sales manager for a mission called Heart for Africa that helps an area of 70% unemployment with one of the highest rates of aids/HIV, average life expectancy of 32, and helps feed 190+ kids in eSwatini, Africa.

Mandy's also wants to help moms in the US be more present in their own families and give them a purpose that is greater than themselves.

She will help us get back our mojo, increase our confidence and yes, our sex life.

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About Dana

Dana B. Myers is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, coach and media personality. As Founder of Booty Parlor, Dana B. Myers has changed the lives thousands of women by inspiring them to boost their sensual self-confidence and create sexier, more satisfying relationships.

Known for her frank yet empowering style, Dana helps women and mothers reclaim the power of their sensuality and sexual satisfaction through her coaching practice and live workshops. Her advice, and Booty Parlor’s products, have been featured by Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Parents, Redbook, Nylon, Allure and The Wall Street Journal. Dana has appeared on ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood Live, The Wendy Williams Show and many more.

“I said to my body softly, I want to be your friend. It took a long breath and said, I’ve been waiting my whole life for this”.

This is a quote that speaks to me, but I’ve had trouble living its truth.

Today, I’m going to get real.

Really real.

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I know how busy you are, but if you could just take a moment to review the show on iTunes or Stitcher, it would mean the world to me. Think of it like leaving a little tip for your barista. If you liked this episode share it. Super easy to do! Use #EmpoweredMama so that I can thank you!

She earned an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. from Dickinson College and has over twenty years of clinical experience.

Trained as a mindfulness-based stress reduction teacher in 2006, Shonda has co-developed various mindfulness group curricula, presents workshops and keynotes in numerous settings, writes an ongoing column for PsychologyToday.com, and is a regular contributor to Psych Central.

The daughter of late beloved global icon and humanitarian, Muhammad Ali, she is a four-time undefeated boxing world champion, whose stellar record includes 24 wins (21 of which were “knockouts”) and zero losses.

Laila is heralded as the most successful female in the history of women’s boxing.

Laila Ali is a sought after inspirational speaker and author of her life’s story in a dynamic book for young women entitled Reach!

She and her husband, former NFL star Curtis Conway, live in Los Angeles, with their two children, son Curtis Jr., and daughter...

When Kara Goldin started putting fruit in her water 10 years ago, she had no idea that she had stumbled upon a business idea that would eventually lead to the creation of a new category in the beverage industry, grow to a 40 million dollar company, and help her lose over 25 pounds in the process.

Let’s meet mom boss Kara Goldin, founder of Hint Water.

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About Kara

Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO ofhint, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces delicious unsweetened flavored water, as well as a fruit scented sunscreen spray that is oxybenzone and paraben-free.

Do you have a cause that is near and dear to your heart which could be a business opportunity?

My guest did!

She created a business to support employment, training and programs that transform the lives of women and their families.

Learn how she is making an impact and how she lives in the motherhood. This is The Empowered Mama podcast.

About Brittany

Brittany Merrill Underwood has made an extraordinary impact through her dedication over the past 13 years to transform the lives of impoverished women and families through Akola.

Brittany founded the Akola in 2016, when she was a sophomore at Southern Methodist University, after she met a Ugandan woman who cared for 24 street children in her home.

Inspired to action, Brittany discovered by training and employing women who are deemed “unemployable” in their communities and guaranteeing them a monthly income, Akola could care for thousands of children.

In this episode, I interview parenting expert and author Erica Komisar.

We talk about her book Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters.

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About Erica

Erica, LCSW, is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 25 years.

A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, she is an author and psychological consultant, bringing parenting and work/life workshops to clinics, schools, corporations.

She lives in New York City with her husband—optometrist and social entrepreneur Dr. Jordan Kassalow—and their three children.

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“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – Dr. John Trainer

Have you ever wondered how other moms manage to take care of themselves, their relationships and their work while raising children?

My guest today is Julie Burton, author of The Self-Care Solution: A Modern Mother's Must-Have Guide to Health and Well-Being.

Julie is also the creator of a new workplace for women called Modern Well.

Let’s learn from her story as a veteran mom of four and what she has learned from interviewing hundreds of moms.

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About Julie

Julie Burton has spent the past two decades working as a fitness instructor, freelance writer, author, self-care expert, and teacher while mothering her four children alongside her husband of 25 years.

Co-founding the Twin Cities Writing Studio in 2015 and publishing The Self-Care Solution: A Modern Mother’s Guide to Health and Well-Being in 2016, Julie’s life transformed.

Experiencing firsthand the reactions from around and outside her writing table, Julie created the brick-and-mortar ModernWell space to share her...

Do you find you have a little voice inside your head causing constant worry?

My guest today is the author of The What If Monster.

She’s a writer, illustrator and all around momboss who is bringing the power of positivity and magic into the lives of all around her.

Join me today to enter her rose-colored world and to get inspired by her story!

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About Michelle

Picture book author and illustrator, Michelle Nelson-Schmidt travels the across the country every year visiting schools and sharing her books and message of striving to find your magic through hard work, courage and perseverance.

Michelle has written several other children's bookings including Jonathan James, Bob is a Unicorn, Dog and Mouse, and Cordelia.

Michelle lives in Georgia with her husband and two children; she loves dogs, the beach, and a really great Boston cream doughnut from time to time.

If you love paper, planners and all things pretty, I bet you know Erin Condren.

Erin shares her early days designing her life and her business with her babies by her side.

She has built a multi-million dollar empire around beautiful designs and her famous life planner. This is The Empowered Mama podcast.

About Erin

Erin started her business printing holiday cards, stationary and sticker from home, a business that ten years later would be a vibrant international eCommerce enterprise, with over 200 employees, two state-of-the-art printing & fulfillment centers, over 250k Instagram followers, and more than one million customers on-line.

Erin Condren built her eponymous brand around one central theme: Let’s get it done, so we can have some fun!

Her signature item is the LifePlanner™ stylized organizer, a stylish multitasking agenda/notebook that includes a month-over-month and week-over-week calendar system, to do lists, color-coded stickers for flagging important dates, and so much more.

She is a powerful voice in the women’s leadership movement and she urges you to let go of perfection and start to focus on what truly matters to you.

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About Tiffany

Tiffany Dufu is a catalyst-at-large in the world of women’s leadership and the author of Drop the Ball, a memoir and manifesto that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.

Having raised nearly $20 million toward the cause of women and girls, she’s been featured in The New York Times, ESSENCE, O, The Oprah Magazine, and on NPR.

She is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, a sought-after speaker on women’s leadership, and has presented at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, TEDWomen and MAKERS.

Are you always on the hunt for productivity tools, and maybe training, so at the end of each day you feel happy, satisfied, and successful?

I am so excited to introduce you to my guest today, founder of inkWELL Press.

She has both courses and an incredible planner that is going to help you conquer overwhelm, achieve harmony, and create a life you love.

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About Tonya

Tonya Dalton is a productivity expert who started her first business in 2009 working out of her dining room juggling two small kids. By 2011, she had grown the business to the point where her husband could leave corporate America and come work with her. By combining her entrepreneurial spirit with his MBA and marketing experience, they were able to grow a small niche business quickly into something that could support their family.

The company continued to flourish, but something was missing. In the summer of 2014 she closed up shop to follow her true passion of starting...

No matter how we change our body, we still obsess with our perceived flaws.

What if this is really about feeling unworthy?

Not good enough?

My guest today is a coach and trainer who is on a mission to help you let go of body image issues and live the free, vibrant life you were meant to live.

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About Jessica

Jessica is a body image coach, teacher, speaker, and writer on a mission to help women break free from body image issues to live the free, whole, and vibrant life they were meant to live.

With nearly a decade of experience as a NASM certified personal trainer, and 3 years as an iPEC certified life coach, Jessi uses a unique process of combining mindset shifts and emotional healing, along with tapping into the innate wisdom of the physical body through movement, to help women learn to accept and embrace the bodies they live in, and utterly transform their lives in the process.

Learn from registered nurse, author and podcaster Jeanne Faulkner about how to have a common sense pregnancy.

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About Jeanne

After almost 20 years spent working as a labor and delivery nurse in urban hospitals, Jeanne began a writing career that lead to thousands of articles being published in magazines, newspapers and on websites.

My guest today has an online show that shows her real life as a mom but also shares beauty and lifestyle tips.

Join us to learn how to she has built her mom vlog and how she brings motherhood, beauty and lifestyle together.

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About Amanda

Trailblazing the way as one of the original moms on YouTube as AmandaMuse, Amanda has created an incredibly engaged community online, both as viewers of AmandaMuse and within the YouTube community.

Amanda began her online journey while documenting her start to motherhood with her two children, while living as an expat in Malaysia.

Now living in the Toronto area, AmandaMuse has become a lifestyle brand, where Amanda shares her views on life and beauty on YouTube, traditional media, social media and her live online shows. Amanda embraces the highs and lows of life while showcasing optimistic authenticity in motherhood and womanhood.

She is inspiring women to suit up in neoprene and claim their share of the male-dominated waves.

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About Izzy

Izzy Tihanyi is the co-owner of Surf Diva surf school in La Jolla, CA, with her twin sister, Caroline.

She started the first all-women's surf school in 1996. Prior to founding Surf Diva, Izzy was a competitive collegiate surfer at UC San Diego, competed on the professional women's longboard circuit, and hosted a TV show for action sports.

Are you a single mom looking for a roadmap to achieving your goals and a happy future for you and your family?

My guest today is Emma Johnson, author of The Kickass Single Mom.

She will share her tips, secrets and tricks to building life on your own terms.

Even if you aren’t a single mom, this episode has some insight for us all!

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About Emma

Emma Johnson is an award-winning business journalist and founder of the world's largest platform for single mothers, WealthySingleMommy, as well as the award-winning podcast, Like a Mother.

As an expert she has appeared on CNN, Headline News, TIME, FoxNews.com, Oprah.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, won Parents magazine's ‘Best of the Web,’ and is cited as host of a 'Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts.'

The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children (Penguin,) will be released October, 2017.

But even we didn’t know the incredible benefits of meditation for fertility and pregnancy.

Today we’re talking with Anna Gannon from Expectful, an incredible app for new and aspiring moms.

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About Anna

Anna Gannon is a mom, the Community and Editorial Lead at Expectful, a writer and yoga & meditation teacher.

Her work has been featured on The Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Yoga Today and The Expectful Blog.

Anna is passionate about the importance of the mind, body, and sometimes baby connection.

Her mission is to improve women's emotional health during their fertility, pregnancy and new motherhood experience by sharing open and honest stories, educating them on the benefits of meditation and movement and most importantly, letting them know they are never alone.

My guest today is a parenting expert who will empower you to be a mom without losing yourself.

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About Eirene

Eirene Heidelberger is a nationally-renowned parenting expert and founder of GIT Mom (Get It Together, Mom!). Through GIT Mom’s 7-step method, Eirene empowers mothers and mothers-to-be by teaching a “mom-first” parenting approach. She is the only parenting coach in the country who advocates parenting techniques that put the mother’s needs center stage.

The GIT Mom Method has been featured nationally on the Today Show, the popular Channel 5 Investigates on Chicago’s NBC 5, and Eirene has been a regular contributor to Chicago television morning show Fox 32 Chicago. Her funny, honest and straightforward approach shines through in her articles for Huffington Post Parenting and TODAY Parenting.

It seems that the professional options for moms fall into two main categories: full-time working mom or stay-at-home-mom.

What about the huge area of grey between those two extremes?

My guest today will share insights from successful part-time working moms who think differently about career and life.

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About Suzanne

Suzanne Brown is a strategic marketing and business consultant, TEDx speaker, an expert on and advocate for professional part-time working moms.

Her upcoming book, Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family, empowers moms to think differently about their career approach and gives a how-to, based on stories, insights, and advice from more than 110 interviews with professional part-time working moms.

Suzanne, her husband, and their two active young boys live in Austin, TX.

It’s time to realize that going after your dreams will have a positive impact on your family and your community.

Learn how to live an inspired and compassionate lifestyle, even with your busy schedule.

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About Amy

Amy is a mother of twins, humanitarian, author, blogger, and entrepreneur.

She believes that teaching self-compassion is the first step in teaching compassion for others.

She believes in living an inspired, compassionate life and has a passion for organizations that partner with people living in poverty to help them create sustainable businesses.

She uses her entrepreneurial skills to support these organizations as well as Project Night Night, an organization that provides books, blankets, and stuffed animals to homeless children living in the USA.

Would you like to know how some of your favorite celebrity moms keep life flirty, fabulous and fun?

My guest today turned motherhood into a hot blog and new book!

Let’s find out how she got over the bump and bounced back after pregnancy.

She will teach you how to be a fab mom, focused after babies.

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About Jill

Jill Simonian is a parenting-lifestyle contributor for TV and digital media and appears on CBS Los Angeles news twice weekly (every Wednesday night and early Friday mornings) to discuss hot parenting topics, offer family lifestyle tips and motivate modern moms to keep life "focused after babies" (that's the f-a-b).

Jill's debut book for first-time pregnant moms, The FAB Mom's Guide: How to Get Over the Bump & Bounce Back Fast After Baby is a practical, personal, confidence-building read -- with unexpected celebrity stories and expert lifestyle tips -- to boost brand new moms' mind, body and...

Christy Wright is the creator of Business Boutique, a Certified Business Coach and a Ramsey Personality with a passion for equipping women with the knowledge and steps they need to successfully run and grow a business.

Since joining Ramsey Solutions in 2009, she has spoken to thousands across the country at women's conferences, national business conferences, Fortune 500 companies and her own sold-out live events.

She is the host of the Business Boutique Podcast and her new book, Business Boutique, released April 2017.

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You can follow Wright on Twitter and Instagram @ChristyBWright and online at...

Dr. Muth is the author of four books, including her latest, The Picky Eater Project: 6 weeks to Happier, Healthier Family Mealtimes., designed to help parents transform picky eaters into fledging foodies. She lives in San Diego.

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Use the promo code “KALE” for 20% off the Picky Eater Project when purchased through the AAP shop.aap.org

My guests today are making motherhood fun through adventures and a new podcast.

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About Jen and CoCo

"Chicken", also known as Jen, is a housewife and mother of three children. Crafting is her religion and she basically just wants "food that's been dealt with". She also has a secret job as a Gopher Exterminator. Shhhhhh.... don't tell anyone. Of course, you can hear more about gophers and much more on her weekly podcast...Free the Housewives.

CoCo is always trying to find meaning in her life and the perfect haircut. She is a mother of three and a housewife living in the coastal community of Leucadia. She has kept busy in her past as an actress, improv comedienne and lead singer of a rock band. Now, she stars as a carpool mom and new podcast co-host on Free the Housewives.

My guest today is committed to revolutionizing well-care for new mamas.

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About Rachelle

Rachelle Garcia Seliga has been working in the field of traditional midwifery care for the past 15 years. Her work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift-- to a culture that honors our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of life.

Rachelle runs a Holistic Well-Woman Care practice, which tends to the health of women's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Her work offers somatic trauma resolution, deep healing, and simple, effective ways to tend to the whole of who we are.

My guest today wants to help you close the gap between the life you live and the life you love.

Join me today to meet Petra Kolber, host of the Perfection Detox.

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About Petra

Petra Kolber is a happiness expert, keynote speaker, and movement motivator. She has 25 years experience presenting around the world and has led workshops in over 20 countries.

She has spoken at TEDx and consulted for many companies including Reebok, Gatorade, California Walnuts and Health Magazine.

Petra hosts The Perfection Detox Podcast and is the guest host for the online fitness show, Daily Burn 365.

As a two-time cancer survivor, she is passionate about waking people up to the precious gift of time. Her mission is to inspire people to move more and fear less so that they can stretch their dreams, strengthen their courage...

Can you imagine starting your own blog and turning it into a business that allows you to be home with your kids?

My guest today did just that and is not only bringing home the bacon but she’s not eating it.

She’s vegan blogger Sophia DeSantis from Veggies Don’t Bite.

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About Sophia

Sophia is the fun-loving mama of three behind the blog Veggies Don't Bite and now cookbook author! She created plant-based, gluten-free and {refined} sugar-free recipes to spread the word that healthy can be delicious and stress free for your whole family.

“You’re not supposed to take a puppy away from its mom for at least eight weeks. Yet we expect moms to go back to work after just six,”.

Even worse, a quarter of employed American mothers return to work within two weeks of giving birth.

The family leave act might give women the right to maternity leave but who can afford to take that much paid time off.

Let’s meet a new mom boss who is starting a unique company to give women a 12-week maternity leave.

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About Margi

Margi is a Minneapolis-based working mom of 4 awesome children. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in NYC with a BA in Communications, and after 4 years in the cosmetics industry, she has worked in Wine and Spirit sales management in MN for the past 6 years.

After discovering she was pregnant with twins, Margi created her blog www.Twinningmom.com as a way to share her experience and connect with other moms.

Are you concerned for your children’s health growing up in a world of artificial packaged foods?

Are you tired of being sick and tired?

Today, let’s talk to food advocate Vani Hari.

You may know her as The Food Babe.

I know her as a woman who is leading a food army to create a better food system.

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About Vani

Vani Hari is a revolutionary food activist, creator of FoodBabe.com, author of the #1 best-selling book The Food Babe Way and was named one of the Most Influential People On The Internet by Time Magazine.

In her work, Hari has influenced how food giants like Kraft, Subway, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, and Starbucks create their products, steering them towards more healthful policies.

Vani teaches people how to make the right purchasing decisions at the grocery store, how to live an organic lifestyle, and how to travel healthfully around the world.

Parents are eager for practical ways to help their kids develop a healthy and responsible understanding of how money works.

Our job as parents starts early to teach them how to spend, save and avoid debt for life.

Listen in to this invaluable advice from author Rachel Cruze.

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About Rachel

As a #1 New York Times best-selling author and seasoned communicator, Rachel Cruze helps Americans learn the proper ways to handle money and stay out of debt. She’s authored two best-selling books: Love Your Life, Not Theirs and Smart Money Smart Kids.

The daughter of Dave Ramsey, she joined Ramsey Solutions in 2010 and uses the knowledge and experiences from growing up in the Ramsey household to educate others.

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Parents are eager for practical ways to help their kids develop a healthy and responsible understanding of how money works.

By slowing down and making intentional choices to simplify, we can choose what matters and step off the hamster wheel.

Today, let’s meet the author of Grace Not Perfection.

It’s a life-giving standard that allows joy—real, flawed, messy joy— to find us in the beautiful mess of life.

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About Emily

Emily Ley is the creator of the Simplified Planner® - a daily agenda for what matters most.

She launched her brand in 2008, and following the success found at its online home — EmilyLey.com, and quickly grew to be carried in over 750 retail outlets across the United States and around the world.

Emily has been featured in Forbes, Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens,...

Are you ready to start living the life you want instead of chasing someone else’s dream?

In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others.

She then unpacks six other healthy money habits for living the life we really want without being buried under debt, stress, and worry.

Let’s start living.

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About Rachel

As a #1 New York Times best-selling author and seasoned communicator, Rachel Cruze helps Americans learn the proper ways to handle money and stay out of debt. She’s authored two best-selling books: Love Your Life, Not Theirs and Smart Money Smart Kids.

The daughter of Dave Ramsey, she joined Ramsey Solutions in 2010 and uses the knowledge and experiences from growing up in the Ramsey household to educate others.

You can follow Cruze on Twitter and Instagram at @RachelCruze and online at rachelcruze.com,...

My guest today left her successful career in the pharmaceutical industry to have a career that gave her life meaning.

Find out how she made an action plan for this daring career change.

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About Tatyana

A PhD and an E-RYT, Tatyana Souza became a yoga teacher in 2011. Inspired by yoga training and by her two little kids, Tatyana left her career in the pharmaceutical industry to co-found Coolidge Corner Yoga in 2013, and later Sadhana Yoga in 2016.

A dreamer and believer in the "good", Tatyana wanted to lead by example for her little boys. She believes that yoga is the catalyst for personal and global change and hopes to make an impact in her community and the world by creating a warm, sacred space where yoga students can move, connect, and cultivate much needed stillness and breath in their daily life.

While the advice may be to sleep when baby sleeps, my guest today decided to start a business during her baby’s naptime.

Find out how she developed a successful website that now reaches nearly 2 million visitors each month.

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About Maggie

Maggie, a self-confessed wedding junkie since the age of 13, is the founder of the Rustic Wedding Chic, a leading online resource for rustic and country weddings.

She has written 5 books, is a contributing writer for The Huffington Post, and has bee featured in several publications, including SUCCESS Magazine, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, and Martha Stewart Weddings.

Are you overwhelmed by bills or just wishing you had more of it to do fun stuff?

We spend lots of energy focusing on parenting and life but rarely have the conversation flow about our cash flow.

Today, let’s learn how to be financially fit.

About Our Expert

Annie has a B.S. in Business Administration.

She spent six years in banking and commercial real estate working throughout the United States.

Annie then received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and worked for a venture backed start-up in the health care arena serving as the assistant to the President prior to becoming a department head.

Once the company went public Annie left corporate America once and for all to pursue her entrepreneurial ambitions.

She became the co-owner of a private practice sports medicine and wellness facility in San Diego, CA.

Shortly thereafter, Annie and her business partner co-founded a medical products development and research organization.

Or are you a new mom and unsure of when you can return to your workout?

Find out the myths of prenatal fitness and get our top fitness tips for moms.

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About Farel

With nearly 20 years’ experience as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor and educator, Farel Hruska has been with FIT4MOM since March 2002.

Joining me shortly following the launch of Stroller Strides® - the first FIT4MOM program -

Farel has since become a leader in the company as the National Fitness Director. She manages all fitness-related programs and initiatives for FIT4MOM, supporting thousands of instructors and franchisees nationwide in addition to supervising Instructor Certifications through the FIT4MOM Academy program for Stroller Strides, Fit4Baby®, Stroller Barre® and Body Back®.

She has presented at numerous fitness conferences including EMPOWER, FitFest, SCW and IDEA, covering the topic of pre- and post-natal fitness, and has won the FIT4MOM...

We know life is busy as a mom but it’s possible to live a healthy and vibrant life.

Listen in today as I interview Kate Geagan one of the top ten dieticians in America.

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About Kate

KATE GEAGAN, MS, RD, is an award-winning dietitian who has given nutrition advice in numerous print, TV, and radio media, including Prevention, Family Circle, and NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX news affiliates across the country.

Since launching her own consulting company in 1999, she has helped dozens of companies develop nutrition-related programs for their employees.

We all know that sugar isn’t good for us, but how often do you consider your blood sugar level?

This isn’t just for diabetics.

Today we are going to talk to internationally renowned nutrition and fitness expert Dan Miller.

His nutrition programs, based on blood-sugar stabilization and macro-nutrient balance, are designed to permanently end dieting.

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About Dan:

Dan Miller is a nationally and internationally known nutrition and fitness expert. Often referred to as “The Plant Based Guru” and “Veggie Man Dan,” his high protein, vegan recipes are featured in Mark Macdonald’s New York

Times Bestselling book Why Kids Make You Fat...and how to get your body back.

Dan develops corporate and individual wellness and nutrition plans and is a member of the Venice Nutrition Coaches Network.

Identified as one of Vistage International’s most promising new speakers,

Dan was featured at the 2015 International Chair Development Speaker Showcase.

Join us today to find out how to help your kids develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits.

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About Deena

Deena Blanchard MD, MPH is a board certified pediatrician working at Premier Pediatrics. Dr. Deena has provided health/parenting tips for outlets such as AOL, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, The Bump, The Daily News, and appeared on CBS and CUNY-TV. She is also a regular contributor for Big City Moms, Well Rounded NY, The Stir by Cafemom, and Momtastic.

Dr. Blanchard joined Premier, after completing her residency training at Columbia University. There she served as a physician advocate for families as part of the family advisory committee and was awarded physician of the year in 2007. Prior to going to medical school she completed a Masters of Public Health at Temple University with a specific focus in health education. Dr. Blanchard attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...

Join us today to find out how mindful eating may be a gift for your family.

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About Christine

Dr. Christine Wood is a pediatrician with interests in nutrition for children and teens. She authored the book,

How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It and her articles and interviews have been published in Newsweek,

Parenting among others. She has been a frequent speaker on the topic of nutrition and the impact of environmental toxins on health.

She has been practicing pediatrics over 25 years and sees patients at Coast Pediatrics Carmel Valley.

She is also a Certified Lactation Educator and enjoys helping nursing mothers. She has served as the Co-Chair for the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative and is Medical Consultant for an adolescent residential eating disorder treatment center in La Jolla.

To be in tune to your heart and energy and not merely getting through each 24 hours?

How nice would it be to tap in to more creativity, inspiration and humor in your day?

My guess it that we all need to awaken.

My guest today will help us find insight to live through our six senses.

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About Starla

STARLA J. KING is an author, editor, and writing coach through her company, OutWrite Living.

Written words are her primary creative medium, with photographs a close second — both of which she uses to advocate for compassionate living through a practice of seeing the usual and mundane as exquisite and miraculous.

Starla lives in Philadelphia with her delightful wife and feline trouble-makers.

She is a registered dietitian (RD) and New York State certified nutritionist, with a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Master's degree in Public Health.

Amy worked as a pediatric dietitian at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, and she has consulted for a youth development programs and the National Cancer Institute’s 5-A-Day program.

Amy is a published author, a blogger, and has presented on a variety of nutrition and health topics to professionals and the public.

Are you feeling blah? Tired? Is your definition of health just not being sick? It’s not. You can feel amazing. You can feel full of energy. You can thrive. Today you’ll meet a woman who overcame the odds and went from deathly ill to being healthy and full of life. And it can happen for you too.

Amie recently healed herself from a decade of chronic pain including Lyme Disease, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Hypothyroidism, Adrenal Fatigue, Leaky Gut, Heavy Metals and much more exhausting thousands of doctors in the country and Mayo Clinic; she shares her story of how Clean Eating and Detox saved her life and inspires you to Clean up your food, too. Amie lives in Manhattan, NYC where she cooks for...

Do you remember that bag of samples the hospital gave you when you brought your baby home?

Would it ever occur to you that those products might not be good for your baby? of course not!

But that is very much the case.

Join me as we talk to Best Ever Baby founder Kim Walls about her passion to provide expert advice to educate, empower and inspire better choices for mom & baby.

About Kim Walls

Kim is the mother of 2 boys, a healthy living activist, serial entrepreneur and author of the award-winning Best Ever Birth Plan.

As part of the founding family of Epicuren Discovery, founder of Babytime! by Episencial and Best Ever Baby, she was named one of the “9 Wonder Women of the Natural Industry”.

As an a nationally recognized natural products expert, her work has been featured in publications including WWD, Real Simple, Fit Pregnancy, Huffington Post, and on-air by the CBS Early Show and Good Morning...

I bet you are still missing some vital nutrients that your body needs.

But it’s not enough to just pop a multi vitamin.

Many are filled with artificial preservatives, coloring and are toxic in their own right.

How can eating vitamins that are from whole foods, non gmo and organic help you achieve new levels of health?

Listen in as we chat with New Chapter vitamin founder, Paul Schulick, about how to rev up your health.

Paul Schulickis the Founder, Master Herbalist, and Chief Formulator of New Chapter®, the leading supplement company in the natural products channel known for its cultured supplements and paradigm-shifting formulations.

Paul, who holds multiple patents, has been at the forefront of the herbal field for over thirty years as a researcher, health educator, and entrepreneur.

He currently leads New Chapter’s Science and Innovation team’s rigorous scientific research.

In this podcast episode, we are talking about the seasons of your life.

Nature is a wonderful teacher about life. Leaves are falling and much of nature is going dormant. Come Springtime, we will see new life again. How naturally are you living your life? Are you realizing that there are seasons to your life too?

Where might there be some habits, people or activities that are weighing you down? Putting more energy into it won't help. Maybe they served you in the past, but the season is over. You sometimes need to cut it away to make room for a happier and healthier life.

Our life is precious, just like the season. Your time is finite. You can't have everything and you can't do everything. To...

Welcome to the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m your host, Lisa Druxman. I am the founder of FIT4MOM, the country’s largest fitness program for moms and am dedicated to getting moms out of overwhelm and into a life of health, passion, purpose and happiness. Well, this is an exciting episode. It is the one year anniversary of the motivating mom podcast. It has been quite an experience. I started off with the amazing A to Z podcasting course by Cliff Ravenscraft. if you have ever considered starting a podcast, this is the way to go. I am so thankful for Clif and what he taught me. I will put a link in the show notes to Cliffs podcast and course.

The podcast experience has been interesting because it made me realize how long it had been since I learned something new. It was challenging and frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. In the end, I realized that I love podcasting but that it didn’t make the most sense for me to be editing the shows. So, I hired an awesome editor, John Bukenas. That gave me the ability to focus on the content. And that kind of led me to an idea...

We are about to hit our 1 year anniversary of the show. And I would like to do some give aways. So please do share this episode and use the #MotivatingMom. I will give away a month of free Stroller Strides or Body Back classes to the first 10 who share the show. When you subscribe and share, it is the best way for us to reach more moms and hopefully give them the strength they need.

For the past two decades, I have immersed myself into the study of leadership and the study of motherhood. Only just recently have I realized how intertwined the two are.

In today’s podcast. I wanted to share with you the wisdom of some of my favorite leaders. And to show you how powerful, how insightful it can be in motherhood.

First, what is leadership?

Leadership is defined as the action of leading a group or an organization. In the broadest sense of the word, a "leader" is someone who brings people together and guides them toward a common goal. Anyone can tell others what to do, but effective leadership...

On today’s epsiode, we are talking to motivating mom Carrie Chacon, founder of Snac Cards

Hello hello. My name is Lisa Druxman and it is my privilege to be your host on the Motivating Mom podcast. On this show, we talk food, fitness, life balance. Our goal is to give you the strength for motherhood at any stage of motherhood. Today, we are talking to my good friend Carrie Chacon, the founder of the SNAC program.

But first, this episode is brought to you by FIT4MOM, where we are helping thousands of moms make strides in fitness, motherhood and life. Go to fit4mom.com to see if there is a class near you. And if there is not, then please go to fit4momfranchise.com to find out about becoming a leader in your neighborhood!

Carrie is a Certified Nutritional Consultant, who created SNAC, a program that focuses on simple nutritionally affordable cooking. She also created SNAC Cards, nutritional flash cards that help kids set the foundation for a healthy lifestyle. These cards have been key to me teaching my kids healthy...

We have all heard someone being described as a “go-getter.” Well this book is about a go-giver! It is a parable about a young man named Joe, a true “go-getter”, who is ambitious and desperately wants to be successful. The problem is the harder he works, the further away he is from his goal of being successful. Joe ends up getting lessons from someone who teaches him how to be a go giver.

While the book is meant for business, you will see that it can have a profound message for your life.

No. 1 is The Law of Value: Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

No.2 is The Law of Compensation: Your income is determined by how many people...

How is it possibly time to go back to school? At the time of this broadcast, it is mid August. Some of my friends have already sent their kids back to school. Where did the summer go? can’t believe my son is going into high school!

Today we are going to share tips from some of our moms from all over the country to make the back to school transition an easy entry.

Find out how to transform your inner critic and empower your inner wisdom

Amy Ahlers, the Wake-Up Call Coach and bestselling author, is on a mission to stop women from being so darn hard on themselves. Since 2000, she has been an International Certified Success Coach, the CEO of Wake-Up Call Coaching and co-founder of Inner Mean Girl Reform School Her newest passion is supporting moms to embrace the whole truth of motherhood, messiness and magic with the Mama Truth Circle.

I just got back from a 3 week sabbatical where I unplugged. No email. No social media. In this episode I share how I did it, what I did and how I’m going to carry that unplugged feeling in to my regular life.

Listen to this episode if you are ready to stop being so busy and to get out of overwhelm.

Welcome to the MM podcast episode 35. I’m your host Lisa Druxman and it is my hope to give you the inspiration, motivation and strength you need in motherhood. This is my first podcast in about 5 weeks. Well hopefully you have not noticed that. I batched a bunch of episodes so I could take nearly 5 weeks off! I went to two conferences but I took 3 weeks totally unplugged. No email and no social media. Next week, I’m going to release an episode about how I did it, what I got out of it and how you might do something similar. But before it’s too late, I wanted to do an episode to check in on being half way through 2015! It’s already July at the time of this recording so I’m a bit late to the game in wishing you a happy half year!

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. How untrue!

Your words are powerful. Are yours positive? Or are they self defeating?

Have you ever paid attention to the language you use?

Welcome to the Motivating Mom podcast. This is part 2 on the power of your thoughts and the power of your words. If you didn’t listen to the power of your thoughts episode, you might want to start with that. It’s episode 33.

Listen to today’s podcast as we get your language in shape and share with you some words that we hope you take out of your day.

Today is part 1 of a 2 part episode. we are going to talk about the power of your thoughts and the power of your words.

We say we want to workout, but they we push sleep on our alarm clock. We say we want to eat healthy but then we eat fried chicken. We say we want to accomplish a goal but then we sabotage ourselves. I was always looking for the secret. And, I pretty much found it. In the last five years, we have learned so much about the brain. And the good news is that you can train it; just like you can train a muscle.

This beautiful quote from Gandhi sums it up...

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny.”

So, if we want to change our destiny, we will need to change our thoughts.

In this episode, we are turning failure inside out and get you to see it as an opportunity.

Contest Time: Win a FIT4MOM trucker hat! All you have to do is share one of your favorite episodes on Facebook and use the #MotivatingMom. We will pick 10 random winners and will message you if you won!

Have you wanted to run a marathon? Start a business? Write a book? Jump out of a plane? Come on. We all have something.

Most often we don’t go after something because of fear of failure. Rejection sucks. We don’t want to look bad. We don’t want to feel like a failure.

“If you’ve never failed, you’ve never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein said that. He was considered a failure from an early age, not speaking until he was nearly four years old, and not speaking fluently until he was 12. His teachers thought he wouldn’t amount to much.

Listen to today’s episode to see how you can turn failure into an opportunity.

If I’m raising you to be a happy mom, we should also talk about raising your happy marriage. When I speak to most moms, they tell me that their marriage is definitely taking a back burner to parenting. However, rekindling that romance may be one of the best gifts you can give your kids.

Think back to when you first started dating.

Remember flirting?

Looking for ways to surprise them?

Deep kisses?

Looking in to their eyes?

Holding hands?

Buying gifts just because?

Seems like a long time ago huh? Totally get it. This parenting stuff is exhausting at any age. I do not claim to be a marriage expert. But my marriage is very important to me. So, I thought I would bring on a very special guest… My husband Jason.

These words should not be a badge of motherhood. How nice would it be to answer

wonderful

unbelievable

or maybe even peaceful

but the only way we are going to get there is if we can get you out of overwhelm.

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Contest time! Write a review for the show on itunes and use the #HealthyMom. We will give away 10 copies of Lisa’s book Lean Mommy. Winners will be announced in the comments section of this podcast next week!

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In this episode, we are talking about 8 ways moms can delegate and find more time in their life.

“And I said to my body softly, “I want to be your friend” It took a long breath and replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this” Nayyirah Raheed

It’s what I have been trying to share with my clients for nearly twenty years. Today, we are talking about body image, particularly body image of moms.

Join Lisa Druxman in this very raw episode where she shares her own body image issues and how she hopes to help you find peace with your body.

Did You Know...

Approximately 7 million girls and women struggle with eating disorders

42% of elementary school students between the 1st and 3rd grades want to be thinner

80% of children who are ten years old are afraid of being fat

51% of 9 and 10 year old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet

Attitudes toward body image are formed early in life, probably earlier than you ever realized. It's up to us as parents to start our children off with strong self image and to combat the pressures from the media. Our own unresolved issues about weight and body image may...

Welcome back to the Motivating Mom podcast. My name is Lisa Druxman and it is my hope to motivate, inspire you and give you the strength for motherhood at any stage of motherhood. I’m excited about today’s show because it is all about you! We are answering your questions!!!! We are talking food, fitness, parenting, We’ve got something for everyone! If a question doesn’t resonate for you, just skip ahead! but before we get started,

The motivating mom podcast has been brought to you by FIT4MOM. If you are listening to this show and there is not a FIT4MOM location near you, please go to our website at fit4mom.com/franchising. We have created amazing career opportunities where you can blend your passion for fitness with motherhood.

Here are some of the questions you will get answers to on today’s episode...

Today’s episode is part of our That Mom series. That mom in terms of that mom who brings healthy snacks to her kids game. That mom who gives out pencils instead of candy at Halloween. That mom who buys organic. I am that mom and I want you to have the tools and resources that you need to raise healthy kids. So, I have brought together some of my favorite mom food ambassadors to educate all of us.

That mom today is Andrea Donsky. She is an Author, Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.), Editor-in-Chief, and Co-Founder of The Healthy Shopper Inc. and Naturally Savvy Media.

Andrea has been natural visionary and successful entrepreneur for over fifteen years. Please welcome Andrea Donsky.

Hello! Welcome to the Motivating Mom podcast. I am your host Lisa Druxman and it is my hope to inspire you, motivate you and give you the support you need in your day. This is a special episode that is part of our That Mom series. What is That Mom you ask?

Well it started when my son Jacob was upset about me bringing healthy snacks to his game. “I don’t want you to be that mom” he said. Well I don’t want to be that mom either. So, I am wanting to educate you on why we all need to be that mom. I am interviewing some of my favorite mom food ambassadors. And my guest today I’m lucky enough to call my friend.

Mareya Ibrahim is known as “The Fit Foodie,” a nationally recognized food safety and clean eating expert, an award-winning entrepreneur, television chef, author and inventor. She is the CEO and founder of Grow Green Industries, INC. and the patented co-creator of the eatCleaner®, an all natural and organic products that help offer cleaner, safer, longer lasting produce. Her book “The Clean Eating Handbook”...

Hello beautiful mamas. This is Lisa Druxman, your host of the Motivating Mom podcast. And it is my hope to give you the inspiration, motivation and support you need in motherhood.

My girlfriend Ash and I have had many conversations about polar opposition for the very popular book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

“Leaning In” has become one of the most common catch phrases for women in business. She wants women to be more assertive. She wants us to have more confidence. She wants us to obtain more authority. In fact, Sandberg, perhaps unknowingly, has set an expectation in today’s society that women should strive to compete in a man’s world. I think that isn’t just alarming, but

naïve.

Yes, women should ask for what they want. Yes, women should have the same opportunities as men. But do we all need to be Sheryl Sandberg to be considered successful? I do not judge her rise to the top, but every woman, and every person for that matter, needs to do what feels right for them. We should not posture the goal that all women should strive to thrive in corporate...

Welcome to episode 19 of the Motivating Mom podcast. I am your host, Lisa Druxman and it is my goal to give you the inspiration, motivation and strength you need to be a healthy and happy mom. Last week, we talked about how to get out of a funk. If you missed that episode, you might want to check it out as we all get in to a funk. One of the best ways to prevent that funk is to eat well. And that’s what we are going to talk about today.

But first, I have something very exciting. I have just a few spots left for our mom retreat coming up on May 7th in the beautiful town of Julian. If you are in a state of overwhelm, if you are looking for life balance, if you are looking to find your passionate purpose, I want you to come join me. I am going to give one spot away for free to my listeners. All you have to do is record one question for the podcast and one person will be chosen at random to join us. How do you leave a question? Go to fit4mom.com/podcast and you can easily record your question from your phone or computer. Please always leave your name and where you are calling...

Welcome to Episode 018 of the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m your host Lisa Druxman and it is my hope to give you some inspiration today when you feel in a funk.

Today’s show is brought to you by our FIT4MOM program, Body Back. This is a program for women at any stage of motherhood. This is a transformational program that combines nutrition with high intensity workouts. But it is so much more. We teach you how to change your thoughts that aren’t serving you and how to change your behaviors that aren’t supporting you. If you are tired of setting the same goals over and over, come try at Body Back class. Go to www.fit4mom.com and find a class near you.

Back to our show...

Last week I was feeling in a bit of a funk. And it occurred to me that I should probably tell you that. I’m not always super charged and positive. I’m human. And we all have up days and down days. But I do have some tips and tricks to help me see the light.

First off, I make note of my cycle. For this particular funk, that was the cause. I’m not...

Hi there. Welcome to the Motivating Mom podcast. Before we get started. Sit up, Take a deep breath in and out. My guess is that you are running around, super busy, a little chaotic. Take a moment. I’m giving it to you now. Just breathe. ah, doesn’t that feel better? Remember, your breath is always with you. Come back to that whenever you feel like you are running too fast.

I want to tell you about a special mom retreat that I am hosting May 7 - 8th in the beautiful town of Julian, just a short distance away from San Diego. If you feel like you need a recharge, then you need this retreat. If you feel like you need to figure out some life purpose, some life balance, then you need this retreat. Come join me in nature, meditation, fitness and some serious inspiration. There are only 9 spots for this retreat and some are already taken. I would LOVE to spend the day with you. If you are interested, please email Christy@fit4mom.com. She will let you know about room availability and help you get signed up.

Welcome to the Motivating Mom podcast episode 16. I was driving to work this morning, stressing on not having enough time to record my podcast when I had a light bulb moment idea. Truth be told, I’m stealing this idea from fellow podcaster Chalene Johnson.

I was listening to her show in the car and shared an interview that she did with someone else. Brilliant! In just a couple of weeks, I am going to have the privilege of having Chalene on my show.

She is my absolute favorite podcast to listen to right now. So often I hear an episode and she is interviewing the people I follow or I admire. Or she talks about topics that I have planned for my show. I almost don’t want to tell you about her because I don’t want to lose you as a listener. But my goal is to give you the strength for motherhood. So I want you to get it from wherever and from whomever you need to. I know you will love her show and you don’t want to miss her as my guest in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my guest spot on The Chalene Johnson Show.

Hello! welcome to episode 15 of the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m changing up the format of today’s show. I have received so many questions about being a mompreneur that I decided to dedicate a whole show to your questions.

But first, I want to tell you about my upcoming mom retreat. I meet so many moms who feel overwhelmed, are having trouble finding their purpose or are challenged in getting healthy. I am hosting an overnight retreat in the beautiful town of Julian. We are going to be staying in a gorgeous country home and we will be doing life plannning, fitness, meditation and more. This really is special. There are only 9 spots. So come with a friend or on your own. Would love to have you join me. Email me at lisa@fit4mom.com if you want more information. The date is May 7th - 8th. Sounds to me like a perfect gift for Mother’s Day.

Ok, let’s get to today’s show about being a mom in business.

Our first question is from Carey in Sacramento. She asks ”How do I get work done when my little ones are around? I don’t want to...

Hello. Good morning or afternoon or evening. Welcome to the Episode 14 of the Motivating Mom podcast. Im your host Lisa Druxman and I am so glad you are listening. It is my hope to give you that little boost you need, that little bit of inspiration or motivation. And I’m so proud of you for taking just a little time for yourself.

This morning in my Body Back class, we got to talking about will power. I find my clients often beat themselves up for not having enough of it. But before you criticize yourself, do you understand how to maximize it? I love how the book The One Thing describes willpower like a tank of gas. If you keep using it up, you will run out. The faster you go, the faster you use up the tank. Every time you make a decision, you use up your fuel. This is why you usually lose your will power by the end of the day.

Stress and willpower don’t mix. That’s probably why you feel it’s so low. People are so stressed out! If you want more will power, you need to find ways...

“Lisa, Clean up your room.” I remember my mom saying this to me when I was a kid. I remember thinking it would be so much easier if there were like a custom space where each toy went. But there wasn't. So I piled things away and shoved them in drawers until my room was seemingly neat. Ah, much like my daughter does now. Keeping tidy has always been a chore for me but I love it so much when it’s neat and tidy.

If you visit my house, you might be surprised to know that tidying doesn’t come naturally to me. My home is quite neat; most of the time. And that’s because I have learned the importance of loving where you live. I have realized that you don’t need a fancy house to love your space. And that’s what we are going to talk about on today’s episode of Motivating Mom.

First off, everyone loves a neat home. I’m not saying that everyone is neat, but everyone loves when things are tidy. But the funny thing is that none of us are ever taught the right way to tidy. We might have learned to cook or even to sew, but no one really teaches how to tidy. I’m always looking for...

Welcome to episode 012, I’m your host, Lisa Druxman and I’m hoping to give you some motivation and inspiration today. This is an emergency episode. I had another episode planned but that is just going to have to wait for a week because we have an epidemic on our hands. And what’s going rampant is overwhelm. I’m seeing it with my clients. I’m seeing it with my friends. Every mom is rushing, running late, stressed, overwhelmed. Now, I’ve talked about life balance in past episodes. And I’ve talked about the power in the words yes and no. So what else can I say to help? Well, I’m going to talk about your village. Why you need one and how to create one. They say it takes a village, so let’s see if that may help you.

Motherhood is by far the hardest job in the entire world. Dads, I’m sure it’s your hardest role too. Fatherhood that is. Being a parent is truly one of the most overwhelming yet wonderful things we ever take on. Let’s face it. Taking care of ourselves alone wasn’t super easy. And now we have to take care of one, two or more kids. There are nearly 40 million moms...

Hello my friends. Welcome to episode 11 of the Motivating Mom podcast. 11 is my favorite number so we are going to talk about one of my favorite topics, purposeful growth one step at a time.

But first, I want to remind you about our FREE Mommy Reset. It’s a ten day video series that I put together with my dear friend Mareya Ibrahim, where our goal is to help you get out of overwhelm and in to the living a life you love to live. We will guide you through baby steps to get there! Go to our show notes for a link to the Mommy Reset.

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At the time of this recording it is February 3, 2015. Just a little over a month in to the new year? Did you set any resolutions or goals for yourself? How are you doing? If you're on track, please share how you are doing it. For most of us, we find ourselves missing the target. It's really no wonder. I'm guessing that you set your sights on some pretty big goals. Most of us try to do too much, too hard, too fast. Why do we expect ourselves to...

Do you know about GMO's? Want to get inspired by a mom, an entrepreneur and food activist? Listen to this episode with special guest, Leah Segedie, the founder of Mamavation. Leah shares her personal story overcoming obesity and how she has helped thousands of moms achieve health and fitness. Shape magazine named Leah as Mom Of The Year and she has been named the country's 4th most influential blogger! This woman is PASSIONATE! She's taking it to Washington D.C. and demanding change in our food industry! She is changing lives one mom at a time!

Welcome to Episode 009 of the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m your host Lisa Druxman and it is my goal to help you live a life you love to live! Today, we are going to be talking about two words. Two words that you say daily. But maybe you don’t realize the impact that they have on your life.

But first, this show is brought to you by our program Body Back. If you aren’t familiar with Body Back, it is our program for moms at any stage of motherhood. It’s a results based program that combines nutrition and fitness to help you achieve a transformation like you never thought possible. This program won’t just change your body. It will change your life. So what are you waiting for? Go to www.fit4mom.com to find a class near you. And if there isn’t one near you, then let’s help you get one started!

Ok, Yes and No.

Looking back, I now realize how important those two words are. And how if your choice of which one to use can have a huge impact on your life.

This show is sponsored by FIT4MOM, where we give you the strength for motherhood. We have classes for every stage of motherhood. So please do check us out at www.fit4mom.com to find a class near you. And if we don’t have a class near you, then talk to us about getting a program started in your neighborhood. We were just voted the #1 fitness franchise by Franchise Business Review. So come on over and connect with us.

Today’s podcast was inspired by an email I received. “Dear Lisa, Thank you for starting the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m enjoying listening. I didn’t want to record my question on your site because I hate the sound of my voice. I also didn’t want to sound like a downer. Lisa, I listen but I’m just not motivated like you are. I don’t know what my passion is or what motivates me. I’m just trying to get through the day....

Good morning. Or afternoon. Or evening. Or whenever you are listening to this podcast. That’s what I love about podcasts. You can squeeze them in to the nooks and crannies of your day. Would love to hear where you listen to the Motivating Mom podcast. I welcome you and I thank you for choosing to spend your precious time with me.

Today, we are going to talk about meditation. Now, don’t just shut this off because you are sure you don’t want to meditate. I’ll have something for you too! I want you to find your meditation and maybe that looks different.

I have had the opportunity to train thousands of women over the course of my career. I’ve gotten people to change their exercise habits and their nutrition habits but rarely have I been able to create this new habit. I so get it. The idea of sitting and doing nothing when you have so much to do is absolutely, well it’s just crazy. And for most of us, sitting quietly doing nothing when there is so much to do (and probably chaos around us) is anything but relaxing.

Welcome to Motivating Mom, Episode 006. Today, we are going to talk about making 2015 your best year ever! We will talk about New Year’s Resolutions and how to make them stick.

This show is brought to you by my company FIT4MOM. We are the leader in mommy fitness and offer classes for every stage of motherhood. Our classes include Fit4Baby, Stroller Strides, Stroller Barre and Body Back. We promise to give you the strength for motherhood. Go to our website at www.fit4mom.com to find a class near you. We have nearly 2,000 class locations nationwide. Go to the shop tab on our website for a free week of classes. If there is not one near you, then perhaps you should start a FIT4MOM class in your neighborhood. We would love to connect with you!

Ok, Let’s talk about New Year’s Resolutions and goal setting. How many of you set them each year? Do you even remember what you set out to do last year? Most of us try to do too much, too hard and too fast to succeed. We set goals that maybe don’t really mean that much to us and we rarely set out...

It is my pleasure to welcome my friend and colleague Mareya Ibrahim from Eat Cleaner. Mareya is a "kitchen magician", a recipe rehab chef and a fit foodie. She is also my partner for Mommy Reset, which by the way is a great free program which could kick off your new year!

On this episode, Mareya joins me to talk about how we can eat cleaner in the New Year. We talk about gluten, sugar, going vegan and more! Most importantly, we talk about how you can eat cleaner and get healthy in 2015!

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Motivating Mom podcast. What did you think of that intro? Did you like it better? I got feedback that the first one didn't sound like me. Well it wasn't actually me, but I think they meant that it didn't feel like me. Does that make sense? We'll see if you like this one. Today, we are going to be talking about your vision for 2015. It's that time of the year, time for planning. Or New Years Resolutions as you may call them. I am a huge fan of planning. Without it, I feel like it's too easy just to coast through your life. It happens to you instead of you making it happen. I don't just plan at the end of the year. It's a year long process, but yes it starts now. Think about all of the things you plan in your life. From weddings to vacations, from business to parties. But so few of us actually plan our life. We kind of just let it happen. If you are happy and can say that if today were your last day that you would have no regrets then all the power to you. But if you feel off course. If you feel like you haven't accomplished what you wanted to, then now...

Welcome to Episode 003 of Motivating Mom. We hope you have enjoyed our first two episodes. Thank you so much for calling in with your questions! If you want to ask a question, go to FIT4MOM.COM/podcast and you can record your question from your phone or computer.

Welcome to episode 2 of the Motivating Mom podcast. I’m your host Lisa Druxman and I’m here to help give you the strength for motherhood. Now realize that I’m not preaching from some zen mountaintop with things all figured out. I am in the trenches of motherhood with you trying to figure it all out and not pull my hair out. I hope you join me in the pursuit for health and happiness in motherhood. If you missed our first episode, go back and listen and you’ll know a little more about me and why I created the Motivating Mom podcast.

In this episode we are talking about time. It’s the thing we all want more of.

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

Welcome to the very first episode of Motivating Mom. I am your host Lisa Druxman. Many of you may know me as the founder of FIT4MOM or programs like Stroller Strides or Body Back. Or perhaps you have done my workout videos Mama Wants Her Body Back or read my book Lean Mommy. But I come to you now as a regular mom in pursuit of health and happiness in motherhood. Why am I doing this podcast? My why is to give women the strength for motherhood. I created Motivating Mom because I believe in moms! I believe that moms are the catalyst for change in their families. The goal of this show is to help you get out of overwhelm and in to peace in the beautiful chaos of motherhood. In this episode, I share my personal story and how I created Stroller Strides. I set you up to figure out your Most Important Things. And finally, I am answering your questions about food, fitness and life balance!